After the American Civil War
Few people know about my fascination with the Civil War. I don’t talk about it. Guess I figure most are not that interested in American history. But here’s Memorial Day again. I read about that war, listen to programs about it, watch movies about it, but I don’t talk about it. Since I was 16 years old, I’ve been trying to process the conflict, issues, traumas, the sad stories I’ve heard that came from the Civil War era. (I had a wonderful American History teacher in high scho